Screening for chronic kidney disease of uncertain aetiology in Sri Lanka: usability of surrogate biomarkers over dipstick proteinuria

BACKGROUND: The use of dipstick proteinuria to screen Chronic Kidney Disease of uncertain aetiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka is a recently debated matter of dispute. The aim of this study was to assess the suitability of biomarkers: serum creatinine, cystatin C and urine albumin to creatinine ratio (ACR)...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMC Nephrol
Hauptverfasser: Ratnayake, Samantha, Badurdeen, Zeid, Nanayakkara, Nishantha, Abeysekara, Tilak, Ratnatunga, Neelakanthi, Kumarasiri, Ranjith
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BioMed Central 2017
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5477244/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28629425
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-017-0610-x
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